Word: mycenaean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beneath the remains of classical Athens, the diggers found two Mycenaean tombs hacked in the living rock. The tombs contained three skeletons, two long bronze swords, other weapons and delicately wrought ornaments of the Age of Bronze. Judging by these remains, the diggers believe that the tombs date from 1400 B.C. At that period, ancient Greece was not yet Greece, for the real Greeks had not swept down in numbers from Thessaly in the north. Athens was probably a small city subject to great Mycenae, itself an outpost of the strange, semi-Egyptian civilization which centered on the island...
...Hermann Göring, who loves nice things and is a great hand at Plünderpraxis, visited Athens in 1935, Mayor Cotzias showed him the town. One of the sights included the National Archeological Museum. For more than an hour, Göring stayed in the Salon of Mycenaean Antiquities, pop-eyed and well-nigh drooling over the collection of golden swords, daggers, goblets, vases, collars, crematory urns and other priceless objects of pre-Homeric craftsmanship. The next year His Honor visited Berlin and saw Göring, who immediately said: "How's the Mycenaean collection? Is that...
Penn began its week with discussions by eminent scholars of medicine, science, the arts, the humanities, religion, social sciences. As if appalled by the modern world, the scholars took refuge in the past, recalled the glories of Greek, Roman, Mycenaean and Byzantine civilizations, of the Middle Ages. From the perspective of 1940, Harvard's Latin Professor Edward Kennard Rand declared, "At least nobody in the Middle Ages proposed, as has today been proposed and terrifically exemplified, a new philosophy of life, a realism most unmedieval, in which pride has been replaced by humility as the most deadly...